Posted on 01/02/2024 5:56:32 AM PST by Red Badger
Do they turn them into bacon, salami and prosciutto?
Mostly BBQ......................
Shoot on sight in Arkansas. On private property. On public lands there is actually a season. That is why the 30 round 223/556 magazine was developed.
During WWII many people in Texas raised pigs because they were cheap, prolific breeders and Armour had a processing plant in Fort Worth. Lots of hogs were made into spam for the US troops.
It was easy to build a pen, buy a few dozen pigs and feed em scrap. Problem was the pigs get hungry. Cheap pens would not hold ‘em, so out they went.
The really cheap pig ranchers just used nose rings to hold them.
Just like those nose rings your daughters and granddaughters wear!!
I’ve read that wild hogs are not edible as they are riddled with parasites. True?
And then introduce lions to get rid of the wolves.
Proverbs 11:22
As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout
So is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
Feral hogs do just fine in all but the harshest deserts. Every Texas county has hogs including Big Bend and Pecos County which are very dry and technically arid not semiarid. Hog hunting is a guilty pleasure of mine and some of the best is in the wide open scrublands of West Texas at night using thermal scopes and NVGs. Hogs are found in every continent in the wild except if Antarctica other than humans they are the most adaptable species on earth. The little female ones make dang fine pit smoking pigs we call them Webber pigs. If they fit in a barrel smoker once splayed out that’s good eats.
https://feralhogs.tamu.edu/feral-hog-distribution-and-expansion/
I live in the Sonora desert, which is a severe desert.
The few times I have been able to eat meat from feral pigs, it was delicious.
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